Cleveland detective who worked on the Kingsbury Run torso killings. At least two book wrotten on the subject includong Torso by Brian Bendis & Marc Andreyko and In The Wake of the Butcher by James Jessen Badal.∼Merylo, J. Peter
Date: May 3 1958
Source: Source unknown; Cleveland Necrology File, Reel #135.
Notes: Merylo, J. Peter, beloved husband of Sylvia (nee Tylicki); father of Marjorie Dentz and Winlfred Hughes, and grandfather; late residence, 5803 Merkle Ave. Friends may call at the Schuster Parma Funeral Home 5904 Ridge Road From 2 To 5 And 7 To 10 P. M. Sunday And Monday. Funeral Tuesday, May 6, Time of services later.
Per contributor Thucydides:
According to his WWI and WWII draft registration cards, Detective Peter Merylo was born April 4, 1895 in "Austria", possibly present-day Czech Republic or Slovakia. He enlisted during WWI at Columbus Barracks, but apparently did not serve long enough to see overseas service. The US Adjutant General Military Records contain the following entry:
Pete Merylo
NSN (no serial number), White
2117 Superior Ave.,
Cleveland, O.
RA (Regular Army), Columbus B[arrac]ks, O. May 2/17. Br Austria. 22 1/2 yrs. [old]. Battery A 76 Field Artillery to Discharge Private Honorable discharge 1 Feb 1918. Alien.
He was the lead detective on the Cleveland Torso Murders case for a while, and pursued leads even after he was no longer a detective on the police force.
Date: May 3 1958
Source: Source unknown; Cleveland Necrology File, Reel #135.
Notes: Merylo, J. Peter, beloved husband of Sylvia (nee Tylicki); father of Marjorie Dentz and Winlfred Hughes, and grandfather; late residence, 5803 Merkle Ave. Friends may call at the Schuster Parma Funeral Home 5904 Ridge Road From 2 To 5 And 7 To 10 P. M. Sunday And Monday. Funeral Tuesday, May 6, Time of services later.
Per contributor Thucydides:
According to his WWI and WWII draft registration cards, Detective Peter Merylo was born April 4, 1895 in "Austria", possibly present-day Czech Republic or Slovakia. He enlisted during WWI at Columbus Barracks, but apparently did not serve long enough to see overseas service. The US Adjutant General Military Records contain the following entry:
Pete Merylo
NSN (no serial number), White
2117 Superior Ave.,
Cleveland, O.
RA (Regular Army), Columbus B[arrac]ks, O. May 2/17. Br Austria. 22 1/2 yrs. [old]. Battery A 76 Field Artillery to Discharge Private Honorable discharge 1 Feb 1918. Alien.
He was the lead detective on the Cleveland Torso Murders case for a while, and pursued leads even after he was no longer a detective on the police force.
Cleveland detective who worked on the Kingsbury Run torso killings. At least two book wrotten on the subject includong Torso by Brian Bendis & Marc Andreyko and In The Wake of the Butcher by James Jessen Badal.∼Merylo, J. Peter
Date: May 3 1958
Source: Source unknown; Cleveland Necrology File, Reel #135.
Notes: Merylo, J. Peter, beloved husband of Sylvia (nee Tylicki); father of Marjorie Dentz and Winlfred Hughes, and grandfather; late residence, 5803 Merkle Ave. Friends may call at the Schuster Parma Funeral Home 5904 Ridge Road From 2 To 5 And 7 To 10 P. M. Sunday And Monday. Funeral Tuesday, May 6, Time of services later.
Per contributor Thucydides:
According to his WWI and WWII draft registration cards, Detective Peter Merylo was born April 4, 1895 in "Austria", possibly present-day Czech Republic or Slovakia. He enlisted during WWI at Columbus Barracks, but apparently did not serve long enough to see overseas service. The US Adjutant General Military Records contain the following entry:
Pete Merylo
NSN (no serial number), White
2117 Superior Ave.,
Cleveland, O.
RA (Regular Army), Columbus B[arrac]ks, O. May 2/17. Br Austria. 22 1/2 yrs. [old]. Battery A 76 Field Artillery to Discharge Private Honorable discharge 1 Feb 1918. Alien.
He was the lead detective on the Cleveland Torso Murders case for a while, and pursued leads even after he was no longer a detective on the police force.
Date: May 3 1958
Source: Source unknown; Cleveland Necrology File, Reel #135.
Notes: Merylo, J. Peter, beloved husband of Sylvia (nee Tylicki); father of Marjorie Dentz and Winlfred Hughes, and grandfather; late residence, 5803 Merkle Ave. Friends may call at the Schuster Parma Funeral Home 5904 Ridge Road From 2 To 5 And 7 To 10 P. M. Sunday And Monday. Funeral Tuesday, May 6, Time of services later.
Per contributor Thucydides:
According to his WWI and WWII draft registration cards, Detective Peter Merylo was born April 4, 1895 in "Austria", possibly present-day Czech Republic or Slovakia. He enlisted during WWI at Columbus Barracks, but apparently did not serve long enough to see overseas service. The US Adjutant General Military Records contain the following entry:
Pete Merylo
NSN (no serial number), White
2117 Superior Ave.,
Cleveland, O.
RA (Regular Army), Columbus B[arrac]ks, O. May 2/17. Br Austria. 22 1/2 yrs. [old]. Battery A 76 Field Artillery to Discharge Private Honorable discharge 1 Feb 1918. Alien.
He was the lead detective on the Cleveland Torso Murders case for a while, and pursued leads even after he was no longer a detective on the police force.
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